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Nighthawk and WNR 3500 in home network?
Bought a new Nighthawk and used my old WNR3500 as accesspoint in my living room. Worked for 2 month then Internet started to fail from time to time (no new H/W) Primary Router - R7800. Act as DHC...
TOOD wrote:
This is the new set up
Router 1: 192.168.1.1
Router 2 (accesspoint): 192.168.1.2
Mediadevices: 192.168.3-15
Are these devices manually configured with static IP addresses?
Only WNR3500 is static but I made an adress reservations with IP to the devices MAC-adress. Semi-static?Everything looks ok until I added my ATV2 as no 15 and changed IP range to 16-. Of some reason the Sonos components disappeared from attached devices. Internet and Sonossystem is working....
Did you leave the WAN port on the WNR3500 disconnected? You should only use a LAN port to connect to the network.
Yes, the cable from the wall plug is connected to a LAN port
It's normal for devices configured with static IP addresses to occasionally disappear from the attached devices list. The router will only display devices that it can see. A device with a static IP address will only be visible if it sends traffic through the router to the Internet.
Ok. My Sonos system picks up music from external HDD connected to router 1 so I´ll guess that the Sonos devices should be visable when playing music.
No Internet break downs for 1 day so if it still works tomorrow then the problem is solved
Cheers!
One add-on. I´m no expert on network settings and tried to change IP range on R-7800 to 192.168.2-99 to avoid the range of WNR3500 without any improvments.